Ok, so I finished Rani's ME1 playthrough. She surprised me, in many ways. She turned out to be mostly Renegade with about 70-75% Paragon. This is surprising, because I restarted her because I thought I was "pushing" her to be renegade. This is true, she's mostly paragon towards her crew and Alliance leadership. Plus she was more paragon towards the council races than I had imagined her to be. She thinks (thought?) that the Alliance needed to be a part of the council, and she thought that the council itself was being stupidly blind towards the Reaper threat, but she turned out to be a realist towards the alien races. They're there, they need to be worked with, and being antagonistic towards aliens will only really weaken humanity in the long run. Especially if that antagonism causes the council races to jointly oppose humanity's goals and agenda.
She renegaded Kaidan, but used the line "I'm not looking to kick over the applecart..." (the paragon ULB option after the lower right "Turians are imperialists, asari and salarians are manipulators.") She has no illusions about the other species' methods, but also has no illusions about humanity. In her mind, we're aggressive, willing to do things the other races hesitate to. That makes humanity dangerous, and she acknowledges that. What she believes, though, is that the council races
need our aggressiveness, and
we need them to help temper that, under normal circumstances. This situation, with Saren and the Reapers, calls for that aggressive temperment, and so she feels that humanity is the best suited for this. So, she feels that humanity should join the council, but not supplant the council.
That said, when the time came, she chose to focus on Sovereign, rather than try to save the council. She is, however, appalled by Udina's intention to form an all-human council with a human chairman, and argued against that, choosing to nominate Anderson as the new councilor. She only hopes that with Anderson's moderate influence, the other races will be given their rightful places on the new council too. Yes, metagame knowledge shows this to be true in ME2, but Rani don't know that yet.
Other decisions of note: She did kill the Rachni Queen, but I hafta change her lines in my personal headcanon. She regrets the necessity, but feels that the Rachni were too dangerous, and that they were better off extinct. Better to kill one creature than risk the lives of countless others if there were a new Rachni War.
She saved the Feros colonists. The gas grenades were a dubious option, and she was skeptical that they'd work, but it was at least worth a try. They
did work, obviously, so she gladly used them to save the colony. It would have
killed her to have to kill the colonists, considering her background (colonist/sole survivor).
In BDtS, she killed Charn, Balak's lieutenant. He tries to minimize his role in the terrorist act, claiming that he was just in it for a little profit, a quick slave grab. Of course, given her background, she immediately flew into a rage, and that was that. Balak, though, was a different story. Even though she renegaded Kaidan, she still had the conversations with him about not taking shortcuts. Basically Kaidan kinda paragon'ed her. Given the choice, she chose not to let the hostages die. She was
very put out by the choice, and hopes like
hell she catches up to Balak one day. But she just couldn't let the hostages die to take down one man.
I kept forgetting to start Fraps the last coupla times I played, so I don't have too many more screenshots of her, but I got a couple from Noveria. I wound up going Feros->Noveria->Virmire->Therum->Ilos/endgame. Made the most sense for her, even though it's not my usual order.
So, without further ado, here are the last screenies of Rani in ME1! (I may replay some of Virmire, see if I can get more screens, but I need to run my BroShep thru ME1, then run all 3 of my Sheps thru ME2...still have a ways to go.)



have a derp face!